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On the Matt Walsh show, the Academy Awards put out their short list for documentaries. Somehow, the number one documentary of the decade didn't make the list. Imagine that. Also, Joe Biden says that the mysterious so called drones in the sky are probably not nefarious, but he's not exactly sure. San Francisco, having solved all of its other problems, appoints a fat acceptance czar. And Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson goes from being a really bad jurist to an even worse Broadway star. All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh, you feeling the stress about giving your family a memorable holiday? You're not alone. Prices remain higher than ever and a lot of us are maxing out our credit cards. Now's the perfect time to take control of your finances and pay off that debt. If you're a homeowner, American Financing can help you unlock the equity in your home and start saving their customers save $800 a month on average. Just imagine what that can mean for your family. 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It offers the same value proposition that MSNBC provided on election night, which is this. When left wingers assemble and shut out everyone who disagrees with them, then at the very least, the meltdowns can be pretty entertaining. They can also reveal a lot about the left's thinking and what's going on in the institutions they control. So case in point, if for some reason you found yourself on Blue sky lately, then you know that to the great surprise of left wing activists, they're starting to lose control over one of the most powerful weapons in the culture war. And in Hollywood, which is Disney, the big story over on Blue sky recently has been that Disney just pulled an episode of the Marvel animated series Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. According to leaked online footage, the episode is about a boy who identifies as transgender and wants to join a girls volleyball team. The coach of the team is completely fine with this, either because he's a really enlightened activist or because he just wants to win really badly. Not exactly clear, but the coach of an opposing team who looks extremely menacing and whose name is Greer, takes issue with this whole arrangement. And as the episode progresses, the boy says lines like I'm trans. My very existence breaks Greer's rules. He also wears Pride themed knee pads and has a trans is beautiful sticker on his water bottle. Now, other players, including one who identifies as non binary, quote unquote, call Greer narrow minded. Ultimately, the evil coach uses some kind of magical curse to confine the boy and his teammates to the locker room and basically kidnaps them and puts their lives in danger in the process. At one point, a character trapped in the locker room says, we could literally die. So, not exactly a subtle piece of trans activism. It's a transparent attempt to indoctrinate children into believing that there's nothing strange at all about a boy playing girls volleyball or the idea that girls can transform into boys. And of course, the episode also intends to demonize any adult who says otherwise. And by the way, in case you're curious, I watched some of the footage online that the episode ends with the boy player becoming really frustrated that he's trapped in the locker room by the evil coach who hates him because he identifies as trans. So he punches his fists really hard into the floor and breaks through the ground, revealing that it's actually an LCD screen. So I guess that even in the fictional cartoon works of trans activism, so called trans girls are prone to uncontrollable testosterone fueled outbursts. But in any case, no part of this production is surprising in any way coming from Disney. What is surprising is that, at least for now, Disney has pulled the episode. For once they've decided that the indoctrination is just too on the nose. And over on Blue sky, someone who worked in the show's art department named Derek Malik Johnson pronouns he himself posted this message to explain why. It's not the most grammatical post in the world, but I'll try my best to read it so it says. So I guess I finally got hit with one of the projects episodes I worked on is getting shelved because of which party that won the recent election. It breaks my heart knowing this impactful and amazing episode is now about to be considered a lost media episode. Now, with writing skills like that, I'm sure this guy will be hired by Disney to script the next Marvel film. But officially, Disney has denied that they've pulled this episode because of the election or because people are tired of trans activism posing as children entertainment. They're also suggesting that they're not influenced in any way by the fact that female volleyball players have been severely injured by trans identifying male players. But more recently, in the context of yet another programming change, Disney has been more forthright about their motivations. So they've just eliminated a so called trans storyline in a different show. This is an upcoming episode of their animated series Win or Lose, which is out early next year on Disney. As the Hollywood Reporter put it yesterday, quote Pixar's original animated series Win or Lose will no longer include a transgender storyline in a later episode. The series follows a co ed middle school softball team named the Pickles in the week leading up to their championship game. Each of the eight episodes center on the off the field life of a character and their point of view, whether it be a player, a parent, a coach or an umpire. Now here's the statement that Disney provided the Hollywood Reporter to explain the change. And again, they're much more honest in this case about why they made the change. Shockingly honest, you might even say, quote. When it comes to animated content for a younger audience, we recognize that many parents would prefer to discuss certain subjects with their children on their own terms and timeline. You think now just a few months ago, a statement like that would have been unthinkable coming from Disney. They were promoting their bold decision to include non binary characters with they them pronouns in films like Elemental. As recently as just last year they had the, you know, that same sex kiss and light year and so on. And now they're coming right out and saying that in effect it's inappropriate to use cartoons to indoctrinate children into trans ideology. Now, of course, that statement doesn't go nearly far enough and this should not be a revelation for them, but it's a start. And it's another sign among many that we've seen in recent weeks that we're seeing a very rapid and profound change in American culture, particularly as it relates to trans activism. But all of that is not to say that we've won the battle for our culture, especially in Hollywood. We're a Long way from that victory in particular in Hollywood and the film industry. And the other day we got a very clear reminder of that fact when my film, Miracist, the top documentary film of this year by a mile, the top documentary film of the decade, was snubbed from Oscar contention in the nonfiction category. We didn't even make the short list of the top 15 films, which they eventually whittled down to the final five nominees. And so this is, this is. They didn't announce the nominees yet. They announced that their short list, they're essentially their top 15. These are the 15 films in the category that they're going to choose from to pick their nominee. And we didn't make the top 15 with the number one film in the genre by a long. By, by, by a wide margin. So as far as snubs go, objectively speaking, it's a pretty big one. Not a surprising one by any means. I'm not shocked by it, but it's still a big snub. As Deadline reports, quote, am I racist? A controversial documentary that satirizes diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, failed to make the Oscar shortlist of nonfiction features today despite earning more money at the box office than any other documentary this year. By far, it scooped up more than $12 million in the domestic box office. But that wasn't enough to sway the minds of Academy documentary branch members who determined the shortlist as well as the eventual five Oscar nominees. Yes, the minds of the Academy documentary branch members have apparently decided that documentary audiences don't know anything about documentaries because we might have an audience score on rotten tomatoes above 95%. We might have exceeded box office totals for documentaries going back six or seven years. But in the end, none of that matters. What does matter is what the Academy documentary branch members think. And these Academy documentary branch members, according to the Academy, have, quote, demonstrated exceptional achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures, mostly by producing their own documentaries. And they've decided that Amiracist is not, in fact, an achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures. Some of these branch members have even produced films that have grossed more than $50,000 internationally. So, you know, they're qualified to make these kinds of determinations. They have their finger on the pulse of audiences everywhere. So what films did meet the branch members high standards this year? Well, it turns out that to no one's surprise whatsoever, they rewarded a handful of films that address political issues from a left wing perspective. This is from Deadline's report. Once again, quote, films that focus on political questions beyond US Borders did get love from the DOC branch members, among them the BB Files, Alexis Bloom's documentary that serves as a brutal takedown of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. No Other Land, a front runner for the Oscars, condemns Israeli government policy in the occupied West Bank Union. The documentary, directed by Brett Story and Stephen Meng, follows the first successful campaign to unionize an Amazon warehouse operation, a facility located on New York's Staten Island. Ah, yes, who could forget Union, the highly compelling documentary that followed the successful campaign to unionize an Amazon warehouse and make your Amazon delivery slightly more expensive. It was a film that, you know, audiences just couldn't get enough of. After all, it's a documentary that grossed a whopping $47,000 at the domestic box office, which is more or less what we got with Mi Racist, minus around $12 million. It's also a movie that no one has said a word about and like almost no one has seen. But who cares in terms of cultural impact and relevance in the year 2024? Union is it. And then far down the list, you've got Am I Racist? By the way, another film, again to no one's surprise, that made the short list is that Will Ferrell trans documentary. You know, where he goes across the country with his trans friend and you know that that one also made, again, a documentary that probably no one has seen but has had no cultural impact of any kind at all. But, you know, also made the list. Now, to be clear, of course, this is an entirely expected outcome. No one here has been out of shape in shock and horror because the Academy isn't celebrating us. We didn't make the movie in order to seek validation from left wing activists in Hollywood. And it's no surprise that we didn't get it. I mean, if we wanted to make a movie that would be accepted by Hollywood, we would not have made that movie of all movies. But two things can be true at the same time. This snub can be completely predictable and unsurprising while also being still objectively outrageous and totally discrediting for the Academy Awards. If a conservative can make a documentary that crushes every other film in its genre that year and beats every film in its genre in the past six or seven years, and yet still not even crack the top 15 by the Academy standards, that means that conservatives are simply excluded from having their work recognized by Hollywood. There's no other way to interpret it. Again, not a surprise, but very discrediting. Now granted, box office totals and audience reception don't necessarily mean that a film is awards Worthy. It'd be easy to point out that superhero films always, or at least until recently, always make billions of dollars and achieve high audience scores. Does that mean that Spider man should win the award for best picture? No, not in my opinion. However, if there was a short list for best picture, if they whittled it down to the top 15, then, yes, you'd expect the highest grossing film of the year to at least be in the running for consideration. But more to the point, you know, documentaries are a different animal entirely. It's very easy for a big budget superhero film from a major studio to earn a lot of money. It's basically guaranteed. On the other hand, it is extremely difficult to create a documentary that makes even a million dollars at the box office, let alone 12 million. And that's proven by the fact that our film is in the top 35 all time. I mean, among all documentaries that have ever been made. Top 35 for domestic box office totals. What that means is that in the nonfiction category, it is very, very challenging to tell a story and explore an issue in a way that a large audience finds compelling and interesting. But that is, after all, the whole point of a documentary. If your documentary doesn't connect with people, then by definition, it cannot be good and should not be in the running to win any award. If it does not connect with the audience, it has failed to do the one thing that it must do in order to qualify as artistically successful. So the performance of our film, both in theaters and on our platform, proves that we succeeded not just financially, but artistically. We explored an issue and told a story in a compelling and interesting way. Which means, yes, at a bare minimum, we should be in the running for a nomination. By all rights, we should get the nomination and win. But none of those things happen purely because of politics. And whether you want to admit it or not, I mean, that does have larger ramifications for our culture. It affects the kinds of films and shows that Hollywood produces. More importantly, it affects what our children see as well. So Disney is relenting, as I mentioned earlier, but only to a point. This is very much an ongoing fight, because one thing I've learned, and maybe the main thing I've learned after getting into filmmaking, is that the left truly believes that it owns the art of filmmaking. Not just that it owns Hollywood, which it does, but that it owns filmmaking itself as an art form. So any conservative who makes a film in any genre, is an intruder, is a usurper showing up in a place where he doesn't belong. That's the way they see it. So the truth is that the success of our films and by the way, both of our films, both documentaries are easily the most watched and influential documentaries of the decade. We have the top two in this decade and there's really no dispute, I don't think anything else is even close to in the running. But that actually makes it less likely that they'll be recognized by critics or awards. Our success is an affront to them. They hate us for it. They feel personally insulted by it. Now, if this snub tells us anything, it's that we're angering all the right people. And unfortunately for the esteemed Academy Documentary branch members, all they've accomplished this week is guaranteeing that we're not going to stop. Now let's get to our five Headlines Grand Canyon University, a private Christian university in beautiful Phoenix, Arizona, believes that we are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. GCU believes in equal opportunity and that the American Dream starts with purpose. 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These are all just commercial aircraft or hobbyist drones or stars or, you know, weather balloons or light refracting from Venus, you know, or any number of explanations, Basically any explanation, as long as it's boring and not. And not scary. That was their statement. We don't know exactly what this is, but we're sure that whatever it is, it's fine. You know, that's. Which is the kind of answer that you wouldn't accept in any other facet of your life. If you went to the doctor because you had some strange thing going on in your body, you had some strange growth or something, and you go to the doctor, the doctor says, well, I don't know what that is, but I'm sure it's fine. You wouldn't accept that. He's like, well, if you don't know what it is, then how can you know that it's fine? It's like the fact that there's something anomalous going on here is in and of itself is pretty good indication that it might not be fine. And yet we get this kind of answer from the government a lot. And that's what they've been saying here, is they don't know what it is, but it's probably fine. Yesterday, Biden finally addressed the drone craze, I think, for the first time, though, very briefly, and talking to reporters. And here's what he said. Will you hold a press conference before.
